The University’s academic senate cited “the lack of essential security guarantees to which those involved in the cooperation partnerships would be exposed in this particular and delicate moment of international crisis.”
The Board also announced that measures aiming to support Palestinian education system will be taken.
“I consider it a wrong choice, especially at a time when the political-diplomatic process of peace, of the search for peace, is intensifying,” said University and Research Minister, Anna Maria Bernini, commenting on the move.
In recent weeks, college campuses around the world have seen protests by pro-Palestine students and faculty members against Israel’s war on Gaza, in which more than 36,000 people have been killed. Demonstrators have demanded that their schools sever any financial and academic links with Israel.
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